That's what Numbered Groups are for. Search for this:

(l)-(l)

and replace with

$1$2

But it can be done with a bit more flair — by not 'finding' the lowercase characters at all! (Don't worry, I'll walk you thru it.)

For that, you have to visualize how a regular Find works: you type in what needs to be found, press the Find button once, and InDesign selects the 'found text'. What if you coud find only the hyphens which have a lowercase character before and after it? — Notice how this is distinctly different from what you do right now, that is, looking for the exact sequence “lowercase – hyphen – lowercase”!

This lil' bit of magic can be done using “lookbehind” and “lookforward” sequence. Inside the “lookbehind” sequence you can specify what needs to be to the left of 'the text you actually found'. This fragmentatte:

(?<=l)-

will only find-and-select individual hyphens that are preceeded by a lowercase character. A phrase worthy of emphasizing.

Simlarly, this one:

-(?=l)

will only find-and-select hyphens that are followed by a lowercase character. And yes! you can combine these two:

(?<=l)-(?=l)

will only select hyphens that … well, see the above :) Replace with Nothing-At-All, and thus you'll be effectively removing the hyphens without touching anything else.

So what is the advantage of this method? In this case, it's rather miniscule. InDesign will not 'touch' the characters left and right of the hyphen; in particular, it will not “remove” them and then “re-insert” them again for the Replace operation. (I think this is rather how Search-and-Replace works, internally.) So it'll run fractionally faster. But consider a situation where you want to apply formatting to these occurrences of hyphens only when preceeded and succeeded by lowercase. You cannot do this with regular Search/Replace, and nor with the Numbered Grouping method. But with the lookbehind and lookahead function means you can!

It's this entirely new learning paradigm: “don't you go and tell me where to find the solution, just tell me what it is!” I don't know, maybe I'm old fashioned.

This is the discussion I remembered it from: https://www.pigsgourdsandwikis……-bugs.html – but you'll still have to read it top to bottom by yourself, I'm not going to summarize it.

There is a not-that-simple way :)

The name in the web address contains periods to its left and right; adding “word breaks” to your name is enough to make the single word version distinctively different:

bXYZb

That said, I think it's bad practice to use GREP styles to capitalize phrases that are supposed to be capitals to begin with. It's generally much 'cleaner' to bite the bullet and use Find/Change to have actual capitals in your text. Imagine, for example, what happens if you export this text out of InDesign to re-use in a web page.

InDesign is not a PDF editor. (Adobe really needs to sell t-shirts with that statement.)

Safest you can do is NOT EDITING a press-ready PDF, and use the original document to re-create it. You never know what side-effects post-editing has — I'm thinking of transparency, font embedding, color profiles, and lots of other things I should not think of.

Second best is to use dedicated PDF editing software — which is not, I repeat not one of InDesign, Illustrator, or Acrobat Pro itself. Pitstop does a better job.

Last best is place the PDF in an InDesign document and paste white rectangles over the errors, so you can type in new text. Obviously, one would only do this when in real dire need of a solution.

Your sample names are all on a single line. If that's what you have right now, all you need is to find everything that's on a single line …

If not, there are a couple of other avenues you might proceed into (or something — I'm mixing metaphors I think).

Your own suggestion is a valiant try but will also match any two words, even starting with a lowercase! That's because of the use of the * operator – zero or more. You are also limiting yourself to accentless names … which might be okay if they are all American but hey, let's go nuts.

Try this one:

ul+( l+)*( ul+)+

Did you possibly create your document as 8.5 x 11″ and afterwards used the Page Resize tool to get the size you wanted?

Check the size that's reported in Document Setup.

Eugene Tyson said:What?

David thinks he needs to create a single double-sized page per what the rest of the world calls “a spread”.

Of course you don't need to. ID does all of this, automatically and invisibly.

A-ha, you were referring to the Navigator panel. You'll have to “live peacefully without the Navigator”.

(The biggest joke of this sort of 'improvements' is Bob also remarks it's still available in both Illustrator and Photoshop. How's that for a “Creative Suite” of like-minded programs and interfaces, Adobe?)